Under the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, guidelines for chronic care management payments have been changed, and the changes will start in 2014, according to AAPC.
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The managed care landscape is changing but there are still several opportunities for ambulatory surgery centers to achieve appropriate reimbursement rates.
Nurse practitioners, though recognized as primary care providers in many states, could prove more useful for electronic health records and billing purposes than most practices currently make them, according to an EHR Intelligence report.
When it comes to ICD-10, healthcare providers should learn from the troubled HealthCare.gov rollout that that it is never too early to prepare for change, according to a report in The National Law Review.
Current procedural terminology modifiers 25 and 57 may be confusing to some coders, but each serves a specific purpose, according to an AAPC report.
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According to a Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center Association blog post, state representative Bill White has pre-filed a bill on transparency in the healthcare marketplace.
In a Medscape Business of Medicine report, Betsy Nicoletti, a consultant, author and speaker from Springfield, Vt., discusses the reasons why physicians don't want to make the switch to ICD-10 as well as actions that physicians can take at their…
The American Medical Association announced changes to the editorial process for updating its Current Procedural Terminology so that the code set most accurately reflects care, communication and efficiency.
In a Medical Practice Insider article, Tom Ormondroyd, vice president and general manager at Precyse Learning Solutions; Bruce Scott, MD, Precyse ICD-10 Consultant; and Christian Oliver, associate vice president for catalog and courseware at Healthstream, discuss ways in which ICD-10…